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Isaac Newton spent more time turning lead into gold than mathematics. Time & money doesn't make dumb ideas good ones. Bread needs water, flour, AND yeast to r
by urthor 4y ago
Isaac Newton spent more time turning lead into gold than mathematics. Time & money doesn't make dumb ideas good ones.
Bread needs water, flour, AND yeast to rise. Ain't gonna do much without all three.
- greenbit 4y agoAnd of course Sir Isaac found time to fit alchemy and mathematics in between the daily activities of subsistence farming. Oh wait ..
- HPsquared 4y agoWas he funded by an external agency for the purpose of turning lead into gold, or was it only his own interest/initiative?
- lioeters 4y agoInterestingly, Newton was "Master of the Mint" at the Royal Mint, which supplies all the nation's coinage. > Newton became perhaps the best-known Master of the Mint upon the death of Thomas Neale in 1699, a position Newton held for the last 30 years of his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Royal_Mint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Royal_Mint If he had been successful in turning lead into gold, he might have made his employer obsolete.
- tomrod 4y agoFlatbread is pretty tasty I hear.